Monday, March 25, 2013

Senior English--3/27/2013

Jump Off--Pick up a copy of the rubric from the front table. --Take out the sample essay from last class ("A Call to Action...")/pick up the sample essay ("A Call to Action...") from the front table.S. the C. --The due date for submitting a revised writing piece for the Cumulative Writing Portfolio is today.--Reminder: Any
writing piece that has already received a score of 80% or higher can
be kept in your portfolio, as mastery has already been demonstrated. Return your scored writing piece to Mr. Martin.--agenda/HW

Writing Workshop -- Arguing for a Position Research Paper--Rubric Familiarization/"Score-Aloud"--Mr. Martin engages in a "score-aloud" for the sample essay entitled "A Call to Action..."--jot down "notes to self" for use when finishing your paper--if you're looking for help in the "Meaning" category (and in some of the other categories, for that matter), this link is amazing:

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/argument.html

Transition -- "setting the table" for break (100 Goals information--what can you do over break?) and Hooked on Books (excerpt below)

From David L. Ulin's The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time:

When I say I can no longer find the necessary quiet [to read], I am engaging, I'll admit it, in hyperbole. Or no...not hyperbole, but oversimplification, reduction, a way of building a frame around something that may resist the impulse to be framed. And yet, this, I think, is something on which we can agree: to read, we need a certain kind of silence, an ability to filter out the noise. That seems increasingly elusive in our overnetworked society, where every buzz and rumor is instantly blogged and tweeted, and it is not contemplation we desire but an odd sort of disctarction, distraction masquerading as being in the know. In such a landscape, knowledge can't help but fall prey to illusion, albeit an illusion that is deeply seductive, with its promise that speed can lead us to illumination, that it is more important to react than to think deeply, that something must be attached to every bit of time. Here, we have my reading problem in a nutshell, for books insist we take the opposite position, that we immerse, slow down. "After September 11," Mona Simpson wrote as part of a 2001 LA Weekly roundtable on reading in wartime, "I didn't read books for the news. Books, by their nature, are never new enough." Simpson doesn't mean that she stopped reading; rather, at a moment when it felt as if time was on fast forward, she relied on books to pull back from the onslaught, to distance herself from the present as a way of reconnecting with a more elemental sense of who we are.

You are being given a gift today--slow down...immerse...enjoy!

HOOKED ON BOOKS**DURING HOOKED ON BOOKS, MEETINGS WITH MR. MARTIN WILL OCCUR (ORDER ON FRONT BOARD--ADD YOUR NAME TO LIST IF NOT ON IT) FOR TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE ANALYSIS ESSAY REVISIONS AND/OR CHECKING PROGRESS OF THE ARGUING FOR A POSITION RESEARCH PAPER**

Closure -- Assign Yourself HW

--write
down, put in your phone, etc. (whatever you do to remember!) what you
need to do in order to progress through the research assignment--coming to class next time with a solid rough draft makes logical sense!--share out (time permitting)

HW--If you have not met with Mr. Martin/demonstrated mastery on the Tuesdays with Morrie Analysis Essay by the end of the day today (2:50 PM), expect a referral following break ("creating" time for assignment completion). --Continue
progressing through the Arguing for a Position Research Paper
assignment as per the homework that you assigned for yourself. This assignment, a Cumulative Writing Portfolio piece and the final major writing assignment of your Livonia High School English career, is due on April 11th. Class time/materials/computers will be provided on April 9th for the sake of self-editing/peer-editing and revisions, so you should come to class with a draft completed. Make it a point to submit
your absolute BEST WORK on the due date so that we have less work
to do between now and the end of the school year!